Understand the characteristics of your paints so you can combine colors that are compatible according to intensity (purity or grayness), transparency (see-through quality of paint) and tinting strength (power of a color to influence a mixture). This enables you to work with just three colors to achieve a harmonious effect. The charts below list the colors for the six triads above, plus two new, modern pigment triads. Sort your paints into each combination and make sketches limited to three colors to see how different subjects look with color harmony palettes. For more on compatible harmony colors: Exploring Color Revised pp. 58-75; Confident Color pp. 70-94; and Confident Color DVD.